Copyright

The hoopla around the release of Sally Rooney's new novel on Tuesday - with bookshops opening early, and queues of shoppers eager to lay their hands on Beautiful World, Where Are You - has contributed to the image of a publishing industry in rude health. Last year had the highest sales in eight years.  Read more

Jack Ryan, the analytical, yet charming CIA analyst, made an appearance in federal court in Maryland earlier this year. The heirs to Tom Clancy's literary legacy are fighting over him. Unlike in the movies, he's not in a great position to fight back.

George Orwell died at University College Hospital, London, on 21 January 1950 at the early age of 46. This means that unlike such long-lived contemporaries as Graham Greene (died 1991) or Anthony Powell (died 2000), the vast majority of his compendious output (21 volumes to date) is newly out of copyright as of 1 January.  Read more

Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York charging the Internet Archive with copyright infringement.  Read more

Book publishing has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, and authors of all stripes have new opportunities to manage. Whether you are a long-time author with published work and contracts, or you are a self-published or "hybrid" author with some titles self-published and some licensed to publisher-partners, you need to do some serious thinking and track all of those licenses.  Read more